JMSC Research Assistant Professor King-Wa Fu will address a public conference called Disaster Recovery Management and Reconstruction Engineering on Saturday, May 8 from 9 am – 1pm.

The half-day conference is organised by HKU’s Faculty of Engineering in light of the Sichuan earthquake of May 12, 2008.

Academics, legislators and engineers will discuss the reconstruction projects that have taken place since the earthquake, emergency management, the restoration of education in earthquake hit zones, the design of earthquake proof buildings and media reporting and communication during and after the Wenchuan earthquake.

King-Wa Fu

King-Wa Fu is speaking about the latter.

“I aim at examining how an underprivileged group, referring to people with disabilities in this study, received information before, during and after the quake. Drawing on in-depth interviews with fifty five individuals with disabilities, I investigate their media use and risk communication requirements at the time of the earthquake.”

Fu’s research focuses on the media’s influence on mental health and suicide, health communication, research method, measurement, and statistics in journalism. He holds a PhD from the JMSC, an MA in Social Sciences and a MPhil in Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained an undergraduate degree in Engineering from HKU and was previously a journalist at the Hong Kong Economic Journal.

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